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OPP officer charged following crash with motorcycle near Walkerton WALKERTON, ON—An OPP officer has been charged following an investigation by the Special Investigation Unit. Provincial constable Kenneth Roppel was charged on November 13, 2018 with left turn-fail to afford reasonable opportunity to...

An OPP crusier collided with a motorcycle at Bruce Road 2 & 3 in June. A Bruce County OPP constable is facing charges in a crash involving a police cruiser and a motorcycle. The crash happened at an intersection of Bruce County Road 3 and Bruce County Road 2 in Brant Township on June 9th. The o...

An OPP constable is facing charges following a crash in Brant Township involving a motorcycle that resulted in injuries. On June 9, 2018, members of South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Bruce County Paramedic Services responded to a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Bruce Count...

An officer with the Ontario Provincial Police in the Temiskaming area is being charged with harassment. OPP say the 42-year-old officer, with 18 years on the force, is charged with harassment and breach of trust. They say the charges were laid after an investigation involving incidents that took pla...

The Ontario Provincial Police Professional Standards Bureau arrested and charged an OPP officer as a result of an investigation into alleged incidents that occurred while the member was on duty. Provincial Constable Michael POTTER, 42 years-old, has been a member of the OPP for 18 years and is curre...

An OPP officer in Temiskaming has been charged with breach of trust and criminal harassment. Michael Potter, 42, has been suspended from duty with pay, with a court appearance scheduled for Dec. 11 in Haileybury, the OPP said in a release. The charges stem from “alleged incidents that occurred while...

OPP officer facing firearms charge after alleged domestic incident The OPP say one of their own has been charged with a firearms offence after police investigated a “domestic incident” last week. According to police, officers were called to an Eastern Ontario home on Oct. 26 to investigate the alle...

OPP Sgt. violates court order in trial involving death of Muskoka boy ‘He came within a whisker of contempt,’ Justice Peter West OSHAWA – A Bracebridge OPP Sgt. admitted he breached a court order in a “minor way” in an Oshawa courtroom Thursday afternoon. Sgt. Greg Allison continued his second day ...

An off-duty Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged with pointing a firearm in a domestic dispute last week. The OPP did not specify the detachment at which the officer serves, noting the identity of the accused is not being released in order to protect that of the victim. The accused has...

Officer, who has been with the force for 24 years, is suspended with pay An eastern Ontario OPP officer has been charged by the force's professional standards unit after a domestic incident. Officers were called to a home on Oct. 26 for a report of an incident involving an off-duty officer, OPP said...

Conditional discharge, suspended sentence for Cst. Jason Redmond, who was arrested in Arrowtown case. A Leeds County Ontario Provincial Police officer, who was snared in an elaborate police sting three years ago, was given a conditional discharge for dealing marijuana and a suspended sentence for f...

Supreme Court to hear case exploring police use of force in Caledonia, Ont. OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear a case involving a man who sued the Ontario Provincial Police and claimed permanent injury after a struggle in Caledonia, Ont. in 2009. Randy Fleming says he was walkin...

An Oxford OPP officer has been arrested in an ongoing investigation into corrupt practices. Const. Nancy St-Gelias, 44, of Ingersoll, was arrested and charged on Oct. 18 with unauthorized use of a computer. Through the investigation, it was revealed that St-Gelias, who is assigned to the Tillsonburg...

Kathryn Missen died from severe asthma attack at her home in Casselman, Ont. The Ontario Provincial Police officer who failed to check on a dying Casselman, Ont., woman who had called 911 for help four years ago apologized to her family in Ottawa Tuesday during a coroner's inquest into the death an...

News media leader hails journalists' acquittal of police obstruction ST. THOMAS – The head of a national journalism association applauded a judge’s decision to acquit two Southwestern Ontario journalists of charges laid against them after they showed up at a police scene while emergency workers wer...